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Vita Petri conversi Villariensis

Century: 13

Hagiography

Latin

Dioc. Cambrai
Duchy of Brabant

INCIPIT

Amantissimo suo in Christo semper uenerabili socio et amico nonno Iohanni suppriori Villariensi suus frater Henricus monachus de Loco Sancti Bernardi et magister conuersorum ... Quoniam secundum beatum Augustinum in libro lxxxiii questionum quaestione lxxxi: Omnis sapientie disciplina est quae ad homines erudiendos pertinet, creatorem creaturamque dinoscere et illum colere dominantem istamque subiectam fateri ...

EXPLICIT

... Illi coniunctus in celis, quem in terris positus, tota deuotione dilexit, Christo Iesu, ecclesie et suo sponso qui cum patre et spiritu sancto uiuit et regnat unus per infinita secula seculorum. Amen.

Hendricus monachus Sancti Bernardi ad Scaldim

Sex: M- Bio: magister of the lay brothers, perhaps originally a monk of Villers-Status author (order, function): Cistercian Monks (SOCist)

EDITING

Location:probably Hemiksem (the abbey of St-Bernard) - Date:after 1237 (date of foundation of Vremde) - Commission:John, subprior of Villers

SIZE

903 lines (ed. Delaissé & Arboit)

CONTEXT

ABSTRACT

Life of Peter, a lay brother from the abbey of Villers in 18 chapters. De vita contains little concrete information about Peter, but focuses on his spiritual progress. Particular attention is paid to his excessive ascetism as an extreme form of imitatio Christi (e.g. stigmata), his devotion to Mary and his mystical experiences. Finally, the Vita Petri contains a remarkable passage in which Peter revolts against Christ, but in the end reconciles with him.

SOURCES

Augustinus, Confessiones
Bernardus Claraevallensis, Sermones super Cantica Canticorum
Bijbel (Primarily New Testament)
Sulpicius Severus, Vita Sancti Martini
Gossuinus de Bossuto, Vita Arnulfi conversi Villariensis
Gillebertus de Hoilandia, Sermones in Canticum Salomonis

INFLUENCE

Gesta sanctorum Villariensium (Contains a summary of the Vita Petri - see also NaSo 447)

MANUSCRIPTS

Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Series Nova (Fidei-Komm), 12854 (Link)

TRANSLATIONS

(French) D'ASSIGINIES (J.), Les vies et faits remarquables de plusieurs saints et vertueux moines, moniales et frères convers du sacré Ordre de Cysteau, propres pour embrazer les c½urs refroidis de tous bons Catholicques, distinguez en trois livres (Mons, 1603) 535v-540v
(French) DELAISSÉ (E.), ARBOIT (F.), ‘La vie de Pierre, convers de Villers-en-Brabant au XIIIe siècle. Édition critique et traduction’, Analecta Bollandiana, 131 (2013) 315-367

EDITIONS

DELAISSÉ (E.), ARBOIT (F.), ‘La vie de Pierre, convers de Villers-en-Brabant au XIIIe siècle. Édition critique et traduction’, Analecta Bollandiana, 131 (2013)

LITERATURE

DELAISSÉ (E.), ‘Le nombre de bienheureux á Villers-en-Brabant aux XIIe et XIIIe siècles’, Revue bénédictine, 117 (2007) 383-401
DELAISSÉ (E.), ‘Relations des saints religieux de Villers avec les membres de leur communauté’, Collectanea Cisterciensia, 69 (2007) 155-163
DELAISSÉ (E.), ARBOIT (F.), ‘La vie de Pierre, convers de Villers-en-Brabant au XIIIe siècle. Édition critique et traduction’, Analecta Bollandiana, 131 (2013) 299-313
LECHAT (R.), ‘Les Bienheureux de l’abbaye de Villers’, Analecta Bollandiana, 42 (1924) 371-386
PERSOONS (E.), 'Handschriften uit Kloosters in de Nederlanden in Wenen', in: Analecta bollandiana, 38 (1967) 59-63; 79
ROISIN (S.), L'hagiographie cistercienne dans la diocï¿½se de Liï¿½ge au XIIIe siï¿½cle, Universitï¿½ de Louvain. Recueil de travaux d'histoire et de philologie, 3e sï¿½rie, 27 (Leuven-Brussel, 1947) 45-46
UNTERKIRCHER (F.), Die datierten Handschriften der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek von 1451 bis 1500. 1 Teil: Text (Wien, 1974) 202

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Contributor:
Stefan Meysman
Eric Delaissé

Update:
2015-06-05 14:44:24